asantalo

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   by asantalo 7y ago

   Andric, this is great feedback and we appreciate it. As you probably know, pricing is a bit of an experiment as a company evolves so we are listening 100%.
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   by asantalo 7y ago

   Thanks dosh1965, we love the things people have done with Cloudinary and 8base. Glad to see were are supporting in Barecelona!
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   by asantalo 7y ago

   get together with people who have the same problem you have. More and more there are groups of founders in different places around the world that not only support each other emotionally but also with best practices.
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   by asantalo 7y ago

   Swagger! In my experience, it is a function of strong preparation from both a product and pitch perspective. Technical founders tend to focus on the deficiencies in their product rather than the strengths when selling. It may make them feel
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   by asantalo 7y ago

   Great question. 8base's developer experience is different than Hasura's, including that we provision infrastructure so that devs aren't required to have AWS/Heroku/other skills nor pay for that separately. Ease of u
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   by asantalo 7y ago

   Thanks Lisa. Patience is a virtue! I have never had a lot of it but with a self-service product, We are competing against the entire Internet and none of us have the time to fiddle with half baked products.
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   by asantalo 7y ago

   Thanks Benjie, would love to connect with you at GraphQL Summit in San Francisco if you are attending in October. Let me know!
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   by asantalo 7y ago

   Benjie, I appreciate you chiming in here personally. Apologies if I oversimplified as I am not all that familiar with your product. Aside from looking at the nuances of the GraphQL engines of either product, the primary difference is that 8
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   by asantalo 7y ago

   Thanks, heymartinadams, really appreciate the comments. May I ask what you were using or planning to use before you made the switch?
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thanks Dakna! I'd say that Prisma and Postgraphile both fall more into the data access layer category where you'd use them instead of other ORMs (like Sequelize). 8base and Hasura are more similar, though Hasura is focused on lay
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thanks, alacret. To us it only makes sense that serverless, which provides a better capacity/utilization model, will be the future. The technology is still evolving and a big part of 8base is how we simplify the provisioning of Serverl
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    WOW thank you. "Sweat" is a good word to describe how we got here, for sure. We really appreciate when people notice.
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    mister_hn, We are really focused on being a production-ready hosted solution but who knows what the future holds. Keeping options open and eager to hear what you and other users think about that.
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thank you Lisa! Yes, you have a great vantage point, having met us about a year ago. We have been heads-down!
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Building in user management has and continues to be a huge priority for us. My background has always been in building complex enterprise software and I was always frustrated in how we needed to build authentication, user management, role-ba
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thanks samwight! What project(s) are you building on 8base right now?
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thanks so much. a lot of effort went into design, messaging, construction and optimization. Most of it was done by our team internally. We hired an illustrator to help with bold colors and images and then our lead designer took the lead and
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Yes, we understand there is somewhat of a trade-off. At 8base, we have tried very hard to use only standards while also delivering the benefit of a flexible, pre-built infrastructure.
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thanks, Codebeast! We appreciate you being an early adopter and contributor to our efforts.
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thanks gavinray!
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Hey patrickaljord - it's a great question. 8base and the tools you mentioned meet at very similar cross-roads, we all take VERY different paths to get there. I think what notably sets us apart is the developer experience in defining da
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thanks Evan. Great to hear from you and appreciate the kind words! We need to talk at some point about integrating Fauna into 8base.
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thank you! Please email me at ceo@8base.com and we can chat offline.
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thanks for your kind words. Much appreciated!
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Thanks so much!
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Albert from 8base here: Between my last two companies, we raised over 100-million in VC capital that all got spent on hiring massive engineering and sales teams. I always had this dream about starting up a company that could grow exponentia
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    Show HN: 8base – Ready-to-Rock GraphQL API and Serverless Back End(8base.com)

    84 points by asantalo 7y ago|76 comments
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    I agree 100% on "don't make the audience think." Competing against everything on the Internet is daunting so simplicity and reducing cognitive load wins.
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    This helps!
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    by asantalo 7y ago

    Check out https://www.8base.com for building the backend of a SaaS application. You still need front-end developers so the platform is not no-code. Many of the no-code products we are familiar with are great to build an prototyp